Considering COVID, it may be a long time before any sporting champs pop by 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And when they do, this president very well may be gone. With that in mind, we surveyed the victors who've accepted No. 45's invite—and all that comes with it.
Filed away inside the vast Library of Congress are the glass negatives from a set of photographs dated Sept. 28, 1925, when President Calvin Coolidge posed alongside the Washington Senators to celebrate consecutive AL pennants, including a World Series win a year earlier. That collection of black-and-white images features a homogeneous cast of characters: each one smartly dressed in a suit, tie and expressionless face.